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Cappella Romana Rehearses Arctic Light — Video
ARCTIC LIGHT: Finnish Orthodox Choral Music Beautiful Finnish choral music of the Orthodox tradition, conducted by Timo Nuoranne from Helsinki, who is making his US debut with Cappella Romana. Cappella Romana will pre-release its 20th recording, also called “Arctic Light,” at these performances. Listen here to a sample of the music, as performed to sold-out
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Fanfare Magazine Reviews Arctic Light
New “Feature Review” in Fanfare Magazine for our latest release, Arctic Light: Finnish Orthodox Music: “The music on this release—all of it a cappella and all polyphonic—includes what is, to these rather novice ears, some of the most adventurous music built on the Orthodox traditions. … One has only to hear the decidedly lush, late-Romantic
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Ivan Moody Talks Arctic Light with Fanfare
Ivan Moody talks about Cappella Romana’s latest release, Arctic Light with Fanfare Magazine‘s James Altena. Read a couple of the questions below and find the full interview on the Fanfare website Fanfare: How did your particular association with the Cappella Romana come about, and what led to the recording of your Arctic Light CD with
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Alexander Lingas Talks Passion Week Cycle on the Orthodox Arts Journal
Alexander Lingas has a new article on the Orthodox Arts Journal on the re-discovery of Maximilian Steinberg’s Passion Week Cycle, Op. 13! The article, “Passion Week, Opus 13 by Maximilian Steinberg (1883–1946): The Recovery of a Neglected Musical Contribution to the Russian Religious Renaissance” traces the history of the Russian Religious Renaissance and the story
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InfoDad review for Hymns of Kassianí
Family-focused review site, InfoDad, reviews our Hymns of Kassianí as a “revelatory” release: “The excellent and expressive voices of Cappella Romana are ideally suited to introduce the music of Kassianí to a wider audience, which is just what they do in a new recording on the ensemble’s own label. Under the sensitive and knowing direction
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Audiophile Audition Gives Five Stars to Hymns of Kassianí
Audiophile Audition gives a five-star review to Cappella Romana’s Hymns of Kassianí recording: “Kassia is especially known for one particular piece, the Hymn of Kassiani, so-called because of its placement in the orthros (matins) service of Holy Wednesday. It is a masterly composition of great pathos, commemorating the harlot who anointed the feet of Jesus and
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Theater Byte Gives Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia its Highest Recommendation
“Applying Professor Abel’s sound technology to the fifteen voices of Capella Romana creates an audio experience that few if any listeners will have ever heard. These disembodied voices, evoking the holy spirit of God, seem to come from everywhere and totally envelop the audience. … Put this Blu-ray Disc in your player, and push the
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Alexander Lingas’s Cappella Romana Playlist: Holy Week 1
Welcome to the second episode in this new series of playlists from the archives of Cappella Romana. During this week and the next in 2020, Western and Eastern Christians are journeying through Holy Week – the devotionally intense period from Palm Sunday through Good Friday to Easter Sunday. This year instead of attending or, more
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John Michael Boyer on Spirit Catholic Radio
Listen to John Michael Boyer on Spirit Catholic Radio: http://spiritcatholicradio.com/Audio/Spirit%20Mornings%20Archives/Previous/04-27-15%20Music%20Monday%20-%20John%20Michael%20Boyer%20-%20Cappella%20Romana.mp3 Help Cappella Romana Reach Even More New Goals — Give Now! One-Time Gift Recurring Gift Mail Phone Subscribe to the Cappella Romana 2015-2016 Season: Seattle Subscription Portland Subscription Series Concerts: Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil — September 11-12-13, 2015 Cyprus: Greek East & Latin West — November
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Ten Days Till The Tudor Choir
Coming in just TEN DAYS (July 26, 2014): [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/42111481″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”600″ iframe=”true” /] Cappella Romana presents a festive summer concert celebrating Bach and his predecessors of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque, featuring one of Seattle’s premier vocal ensembles, The Tudor Choir. The program includes works by Palestrina, Praetorius, Schutz, and J.S. Bach. Saturday, 26
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Radiant Cloud in April
RADIANT CLOUDAlexander Lingas, dir. Luminous choral music by contemporary composers steeped in the Byzantine tradition. Featured works include: Radiant Cloud and the World Premiere of A Woman Clothed with the Sun, a setting from the Book of Revelation, by Michael Adamis and the “Benedictions” from the Requiem by Mikis Theodorakis, best known worldwide for his
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Preparing for “Be Radiant, O Peoples!”
Cappella Romana is a week from our “Be Radiant, O Peoples” rehearsals, but in the meantime you can enjoy this work from Ivan Moody (which appears on the new Angelic Light compilation). We’ll be premiering a new work by Ivan Moody during the “Be Radiant, O Peoples” concerts:
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